“Sunday Seven”, a Mexican folktale, tells an important lesson of how to live your life: kind people receive a good fulfilled life, while evil spiteful people get an empty life full of regret. The kind hunchback is an honest, hard working man; while his brother is cruel and lazy, making the kind brother do all the work. This shows the difference between the two brothers and how their lives are completely different even though they both share a hunched back. The good brother’s kindness rewarded him when he helped the fairies with their song and they got rid of his hump. Also, he is rewarded greatly with gold and silver when he saves the blind, deaf, and dumb of their ailments. However, his brother sees the man’s good fortune and becomes jealous. This jealousy is what leads him to his misfortune though because when he tries to fix the fairies’ song, he is doing it for himself and not necessarily for the fairies. Therefore, the evil brother ruins the fairies’ song with his impurity and they abandon him. Also, his quest towards selfishness led him right into the hands of the evil ogres. They grant him with another hump and the evil brother gets no good things from his impure attitude towards life. This occurs today when friendly people get breaks in life because they get favors or a boost from people that they have helped in the past. On the contrary, people who are selfish and cruel end up being betrayed by someone or avoided by people that might help them out. Life treats a kind person better than a cruel one.
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